Most Popular Books by Cory Doctorow

Vor einigen Jahren hat sich Marcus Yallow mit Homeland Security angelegt – und gewonnen. Nun ist er Webmaster für einen aufstrebenden Politiker, der dem von Wirtschaftskrisen gebeutelten Kalifornien Reformen verspricht und gegen die staatliche Überwachung vorgehen will. Doch dann bekommt Marcus von Masha, seiner früheren Gegenspielerin, einen USB-Stick mit brandheißen und streng vertraulichen Daten zugesteckt, die er veröffentlichen soll. Er zögert, denn wenn er sich dazu bekennt, kostet ihn das seinen Job. Wenn er aber nicht mitspielt, machen die Behörden munter weiter. Was soll er tun? Und dann sind da auch noch die verdächtigen Gestalten, die Marcus immer enger beschatten ...

A DIY short story collection, by award-winning science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Full text and other Creative Commons licensed downloads at http://craphound.com/walh.

From Boing Boing cofounder and the bestselling author of Little Brother and its sequel Homeland comes Cory Doctorow''s "Party Discipline," a Tor.com Original In a cyberpunk world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The fifteenth anniversary of the Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast Escape Pod, featuring new and exclusive stories from today’s bestselling writers. Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. Celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of cutting-edge science fiction from the hit podcast, Escape Pod. Escape Pod has been bringing the finest short fiction to millions of ears all over the world, at the forefront of a new fiction revolution. This anthology gathers together fifteen stories, including new and exclusive work from writers such as from Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, Mary Robinette Kowal, T. Kingfisher and more. From editors Mur Laffterty and S.B. Divya comes the science fiction collection of the year, bringing together bestselling authors in celebration of the publishing phenomenon that is, Escape Pod.

From the creator of Black Mirror comes the first book in an anthology series featuring original stories from leading fiction writers, all set in the world of the cult series. Edited by Charlie Brooker, the creator of the hit Netflix original series Black Mirror, this book takes the very essence of the globally acclaimed cult TV show to create new, original, darkly satirical stories that tap into our collective unease about the modern world. This is Black Mirror in book form, allowed to roam through the imaginations of some of the leading names in contemporary fiction. This collection will challenge you to see the world in a different—and more disturbing—light. You have been warned. . . .

An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones. "I''d recommend Little Brother over pretty much any book I''ve read this year." --Neil Gaiman At the publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow! A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers'' efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as Cory Doctorow''s novel The Lost Cause. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a new Little Brother novella, there is no security in obscurity. But there can be redemption in mutual aid. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a new Little Brother story from Cory Doctorow, when schools make war on their own students, something has to give. . . At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A collection of previously published articles and essays.

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza (conocido por sus amigos como Hubert, Etc) era demasiado viejo para estar en esa fiesta comunista. Pero después de ver el desmoronamiento de la sociedad moderna, no le queda otro sitio donde estar, excepto entre la escoria de jóvenes descontentos que se pasan la noche de fiesta y desprecian a las ovejas que ven por la mañana. Después de conocer a Natalie, una heredera muy rica que intenta escapar de las garras de su represivo padre, los dos deciden renunciar por completo a la sociedad formal y marcharse. Después de todo, ahora que cualquiera puede diseñar e imprimir las necesidades básicas de la vida -alimentación, ropa, refugio- desde un ordenador, parece que hay pocas razones para trabajar dentro del sistema. Sigue siendo un mundo peligroso, las tierras vacías destrozadas por el cambio climático, las ciudades muertas ahuecadas por la huida industrial, las sombras que esconden a los depredadores, tanto animales como humanos. Sin embargo, cuando los pioneros fugitivos prosperan, más gente se une a ellos. Entonces, los caminantes descubren lo único que los ultrarricos nunca han podido comprar: cómo vencer a la muerte. Ahora es la guerra, una guerra que pondrá el mundo patas arriba. Fascinante, conmovedor y con un humor negro, Walkaway es un thriller de ciencia ficción multigeneracional sobre los desgarradores cambios de los próximos cien años... y las personas muy humanas que vivirán sus consecuencias.

“Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you’re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” —Book Sense You hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled—each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn’t heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome. Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can’t go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don’t have Pentzler’s Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.

A short, provocative guide to what''s good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification. In modern tech parlance, a centaur is a person who is able to use technology to be a better, more productive version of themself. A reverse centaur is a person who is forced by technology to work at an inhuman pace—a driver made to deliver all day long, nonstop; a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks; a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI—he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential. And yet. AI has arrived surrounded by unprecedented hype driven by a tech industry desperate to maintain its unprecedented valuation based on its own promises of endless financial growth. Despite the fact that almost all of AI’s real-world implementations have proved underwhelming, AI is projected to be worth more than $16 trillion—a number that only makes sense if AI replaces vast swathes of the wage-earning human workforce. To justify that level of “value,” every story about AI must be presented as inevitable, world-changing disruption. Even the tales of the robot apocalypse are a calculated attempt to bolster the fearsome power of AI. For Doctorow, it is imperative to see through that hype to the real story, to understand the technology not just for what it does, but for who it does it to and who it does it for. From that point of view, the story of AI is indeed dramatic and unprecedented, having generated an investment bubble so big that it endangers the entire world economy. In The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI—as he so successfully did in Enshittification—Doctorow recounts both how we found ourselves in this dire situation and how we can get through it, to a life “after” AI in which the tools work for us, not the other way around.

Ready for more Chaos and Cosmos? From space pirates to undead dragons, Tor and Tor.com Publishing are proud to present excerpts of some of 2020’s most wild and wondrous new sci-fi and fantasy. Includes free sample ebook chapters from: The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons #3), by Jenn Lyons Master of Poisons, by Andrea Hairston To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, by Christopher Paolini Burning Roses, by S. L. Huang Attack Surface (A Little Brother Story), by Cory Doctorow NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Invisible Life of addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987''s The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

If you want a better future tomorrow, you''re going to have to fight for it today. Here are four urgent stories from author and activist Cory Doctorow, four social, technological and economic visions of the world today and its near - all too near - future. ''Unauthorized Bread'' is a tale of immigration, toxic economic stratification and a young woman''s perilously illegal quest to fix a broken toaster. In ''Model Minority'' a superhero finds himself way out his depth when he confronts the corruption of the police and justice system. ''Radicalized'' is the story of a desperate husband, a darknet forum and the birth of a violent uprising against the US health care system. The final story, ''The Masque of the Red Death'', tracks an uber-wealthy survivalist and his followers as they hole up and attempt to ride out the collapse of society.

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